Biography

Manuele Fior was born in Cesena in 1975.
In 1994 he won first prize at the “Bienal do Juvenes Criadores do mediteraneo” in Lisbon, comic section. After completing his degree in architecture in Venice in 2000, he moved to Berlin, where he worked until 2005 as a comics artist, illustrator and architect. He began collaborating with the German publisher Avant-Verlag in 2001with the magazine “Plaque.” Since then he has produced a great number of short comic stories written in collaboration with his brother Daniele, such as “Black,” “Bile Noir,” “Stripburger,” “Foresten,” “Osmosa.”
In 2005 he moved first to Oslo and then to Paris where he still lives today.

He published the graphic novel L’Intervista - Coconinopress 2013 (Premio Attilio Micheluzzi, Miglior Fumetto, Comicon 2014), Cinquemila Chilometri Al Secondo - Coconinpress 2010 (Fauve d’Or – Miglior Album – Festival Internazionale di Angoulême 2011, Premio Gran Guinigi – Autore Unico, Lucca 2010), La Signorina Else – based on a novel by A. Schnitzler – Coconinopress 2009 (Prix de la ville de Genève 2009), Rosso Oltremare – Coconinopress 2006 (Premio Attilio Micheluzzi, Miglior Disegno per un Romanzo Grafico, Comicon 2006), Les Gens le Dimanche – Atrabile 2004.
As an illustrator he has collaborated with “The New Yorker”, “Le Monde”, “Vanity Fair”, Feltrinelli, Einaudi, “Sole 24 Ore”, Edizioni EL, Fabbri, “Internazionale”, Il Manifesto, “Rolling Stone Magazine”, Les Inrocks, Nathan, Bayard, Far East Festival.

http://www.manuelefior.com/